I told you yesterday
that CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson has been receiving a lot of pushback from
the Obama White House. She has been one of the few that have been
pursuing the Benghazi story as a real journalist, seeking to get the
truth of the story out. I have speculated
that White House deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes may be the
culprit in coming up with the story that would be the attempt to
cover-up the Benghazi story, namely that a YouTube video brought about
protests which led to the attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11,
2012. However, now there is a serious question about the ties between
the White House and CBS. Sources have confirmed that CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes.
The Daily Caller made the connection:

The brother of a top Obama administration official is
also the president of CBS News, and the network may be days away from
dropping one of its top investigative reporters for covering the
administration’s scandals too aggressively. CBS News executives have
reportedly expressed frustration with their own reporter, Sharyl
Attkisson, who has steadily covered the Obama administration’s handling
of the Benghazi terrorist attack in Libya since late last year

Let’s say I was planning a trip to Germany. Once I arrived, I was so
enamored by the country that I made plans to live there. Following the
difficult immigration process, I move everything across the ocean to
Germany, find a place to live in a great part of town, and settle in.
However, after a few months, my savings have dried up. I have run out of
money and I need a job. I go to interview after interview; finally
landing a job at a local restaurant as a busser. During my time at work,
I come across a sign that reads “Gefahr, heiß!” Unfortunately, I don’t
speak a lick of German, and I don’t understand that “Gefahr, heiß!”
means “Danger, Hot!” I wind up with a pretty bad burn, so I sue the
restaurant.

Does that seem fair? Obviously not. Do you think a judge would even
deign to hear my case in court? I’d hope not, because it was my fault
for moving to Germany without bothering to learn the language of the
country. A similar case is moving forward in Colorado as I write this
article.
According to CBS Denver:

“A group of Hispanic custodians at the
Auraria Campus in downtown Denver are claiming they are victims of
discrimination. They’ve filed a complaint against the campus operator
that could be reviewed by a federal judge…’Too many things have happened
to me there that I don’t even know how to explain it,’ said Auraria
custodian Bertha Ribota. Ribota said she was injured at work because she
couldn’t read a warning sign that was in English…’If I could speak English I wouldn’t have the problems that exist,’ said Ribota.”

"What difference does it make?"

In the
White House’s latest efforts at transparency, the administration
announced to reporters that it would brief reporters on the latest
shocking developments about the Benghazi situation … behind closed
doors. Politico reports that the meeting started at approximately 12:45
PM ET, and that it moved the normal press briefing to 1:45 PM ET. Jay
Carney, White House press secretary, did not comment on whether the
meeting took place.

The off-the-record session was announced to reporters in the wake of an ABC News report
showing that White House and State Dept. officials were involved in
revising the now-discredited CIA talking points about the attack on
Benghazi.

The
administration routinely exerts pressure on reporters it feels are not
kind enough in their coverage. Reporters like Cheryl Attkisson of CBS
News have felt the hand
of their bosses for “wading dangerously close to advocacy” with regard
to Benghazi. No doubt this “off-the-record” meeting was designed to get
all the president’s horses and all the president’s men to put the
Benghazi humpty dumpty together again.

UPDATE: Reporters not invited to the off-the-record briefing are reportedly incredibly unhappy about it:

UPDATE II: Jake Tapper of CNN reports that the regularly scheduled press briefing has been delayed even further:

How many times have we heard establishment press members, particularly
broadcasters, insist that no one on the left side of the gun control
discussion wants to take away anyone's guns? Just a few examples include
CNN's Piers Morgan, CNN's Carol Costello, and MSNBC's Alex Wagner, even after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was quoted
in the New York Times before Christmas saying that "confiscation could
be an option." Currently, New York, as Hot Air's Jazz Shaw noted in late April, actually is confiscating guns, based on "the exercise of reasonable professional judgment" of "mental health professionals."

Though I'm sure they'll try, the deniers are going to have a hard time
explaining away what the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol
Clubs has reported with
accompanying audio. After the conclusion of a hearing of New Jersey's
Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, an open mic captured the
following discussion among three Democratic senators (HT PolitiChicks via Instapundit; internal link and bolds are in original)

November 1936. "Young family, penniless,
hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California. The father, 24, and the
mother, 17, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Early in 1935 their
baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were
working as field laborers."

National guard units seeking to
confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April
19th by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law
enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured
before government forces were compelled to
withdraw.Speaking after the clash Massachusetts Governor
Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local
citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed
the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal
revenue offices. The governor, who described the group's organizers as
"criminals," issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any
individual who has interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and
order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal
by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault
weapons.Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons
and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early
this month between government and military leaders at which the governor
authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.One
government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that "none
of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and
turned over their weapons voluntarily." Government troops initially succeeded in
confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops
attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from
heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's
plans.

During a tense standoff in Lexington's town park, National Guard Colonel
Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to
surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot,
which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians
were killed in the ensuing exchange. Ironically, the local citizenry blamed
government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before
order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended
upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces overmatched by the armed
mob, ordered a retreat.

Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the
state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The
governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and
leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the
extremist faction, remain at
large.

The Missouri Legislature sent the governor a bill Wednesday that would
expand gun rights and declare all federal gun regulations
unenforceable, in a response to President Obama's push for gun control
legislation.

The Republican-led Legislature passed the measure hoping to shield
the state from federal proposals that would ban assault weapons and
expand background checks. But the U.S. Senate's defeat of a background
check expansion three weeks ago did nothing to assuage the fears of
Missouri Republicans who pressed forward with their legislation.

The Missouri House voted 118-36 Wednesday to send the bill to
Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. The Senate passed the measure earlier this
month.

When I took Hillary Rodham Clinton to task in January for the mishandling of security in Benghazi, Libya,
I told her that if I had been president at the time, I would have
relieved her of her post. Some politicians and pundits took offense at
my line of questioning.

During those hearings, I reminded Mrs. Clinton that multiple requests were sent to the State Department asking for increased security measures. I asked if she had read the cables from Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens asking for increased security. She replied that she was busy and had not read them. I find that inexcusable.

Four months later, we are hearing that Mrs. Clinton allegedly withheld information from a counterterrorism bureau during the response. We are hearing new allegations that Special Forces wanting to respond during the attacks were told, “You can’t go” by superiors. Ambassador Stevens‘ deputy, Gregory Hicks, testified this week that he spoke with Mrs. Clinton on the night of the attack, when these orders were given. We are hearing that Mr. Hicks was initially told by the State Department not to meet with congressional investigators.

Benghazi whistleblower Greg Hicks has been demoted to a desk job for
speaking out on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks at the U.S. post in Libya
that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans,
his attorney said on Friday.

"He was offered a choice: no job or a job that doesn't mean anything,"
attorney Victoria Toensing told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"It's a desk job."

Federal Reserve officials have mapped out a
strategy for winding down an unprecedented $85 billion-a-month
bond-buying program meant to spur the economy—an effort to preserve
flexibility and manage highly unpredictable market expectations.

Don't expect an imminent announcement.

Officials say they plan to reduce the amount of bonds
they buy in careful and potentially halting steps, varying their
purchases as their confidence about the job market and inflation evolves. The timing on when to start is still being debated.

The whisper sellside consensus is that it will be the September FOMC
meeting, just after the Jackson Hole meeting at which Bernanke will be
absent, that the first details of the flow "slowdown" will be revealed.
But there is certainly no consensus.

It's even worse than we previously thought. A retired four-star admiral
is now claiming that Barack Obama intentionally conspired with America's
enemies to stage a bogus attack and the kidnapping of an American
ambassador so he could "negotiate" the release of a "hostage" and
bolster his mediocre approval ratings just prior to the election!

The
Washington Examiner, quoting retired Four-Star Admiral James Lyons,
writes: "the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi... was the
result of a bungled abduction attempt.... the first stage of an
international prisoner exchange... that would have ensured the release
of Omar Abdel Rahman, the 'Blind Sheik'..."

But something went
horribly wrong with Obama's "October Surprise." Although the Obama
Administration intentionally gutted security at the consulate prior to
the staged kidnapping, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty
disobeyed direct orders to stand down, saved American lives,
single-handedly killed scores of attackers...and the attackers,
believing that Obama had betrayed them, tortured Ambassador Chris
Stevens and dragged his body through the streets.

Some will say
that Admiral Lyons' accusation is not a smoking gun. We agree; that's
exactly why Congress must investigate Benghazi-gate.

Moreover, we
firmly believe the problem with Admiral Lyons' assertion is that he is
only scratching the surface; the full and complete truth may be much,
much worse.

Benghazi-gate is not about a bogus YouTube video
series of lies. It's not about the Obama Administration's foreign policy
ineptitude. We are dealing with something much more sinister...
something potentially treasonous... and the following questions, posed
in an article in The New American, go to the heart of the matter:

1.
"What was the Obama administration's full role in helping violent
Jihadists, self-styled al Qaeda terrorists, and Western-backed
"revolutionaries" take over Libya in the first place?

2. Did
that half-baked scheme to arm Jihadist leaders, who... had previously
fought U.S. troops in Iraq, contribute to the attack, as countless
experts and officials have suggested?

3. What was actually
going on at the compound in Benghazi, which, as the report states, was
never a "consulate" despite establishment media claims?

4.
Was Ambassador Stevens recruiting and arming Jihadists and terrorists to
wage war on the Syrian regime after what Obama called the "success" in
Libya, as a growing body of credible evidence suggests?

5.
Why did the administration claim for so long that the attack was just a
"protest" over a YouTube video gone awry, even when it knew definitively
that was not the case?

6. Was the lack of security at the
compound a political ploy to conceal the extent of the lawlessness and
utter chaos left in the wake of Obama's unconstitutional "regime change"
war on Libya, as even members of Congress have alleged?"

It's
clear. Benghazi-Gate is only a small piece of a much larger operation,
an attempt to conceal what The New American calls "the Obama
administration's full role in helping violent Jihadists and self-styled
al Qaeda terrorists."

Prior to the election Barack Obama
continually told us that "Osama bin-Laden is dead and GM is alive"; but
the sad truth is that Osama bin-Laden's organization is alive and well,
and the Obama Regime may be giving aid and comfort to this terrorist
network.

And prior to the election, Fox News' Geraldo Rivera
pontificated that Republicans shouldn't "politicize" Benghazi-gate.
Swaggering onto the set of Fox and Friends, Rivera bloviated: "I think
we have to stop this politicizing." And Rivera issued the following
veiled warning to Republicans: "Do we want to try and influence the
election with a tragedy that happened in North Africa?"

Ironic,
isn't it? Barack Obama played politics with the lives of Americans; like
Rivera, the media covered Obama's rear and threatened to accuse anyone
and everyone who mentioned it of "playing politics."

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.